A Ben Greenfield podcast episode introducing medicinal mushrooms and their uses. The host previews a conversation with the president of Four Sigma Foods about mushroom extracts (Reishi, chaga, lion's mane, cordyceps), extraction methods (dual extraction), uses for stress, immunity, cognitive support, athlete performance, product formulations, and administration/absorption considerations (hot vs cold water, with/without food, children).
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Hey, you guys, it's Ben Greenfield and I just finished recording a podcast on Shrooms. This one was super interesting. It was about medicinal mushrooms with this guy that goes out in the forest and gets mushrooms and creates these extracts of mushrooms. Everything from like coffee infused mushroom extracts to chocolate powders and chocolate teas made with mushrooms and all sorts of other things that can be used for focus or immunity. We talk about all this stuff during the show. He mentions Reishi and how to properly use reishi extract for things like stress. We talk about chaga extract for your immune system, how to use lion's mane mushroom as a smart drug or as a neurotropic, or even to present on or prevent onset of things like Alzheimer's. We talk about how athletes can use cordyceps and reishi mushrooms. We talk about how pharmaceutical companies do things like grow mushroom extracts on grains and rices and produce mushrooms that have a high amount of bioactive compounds but also a lot of side effects and also a lot of starches and dextrose added to them. We talk about the proper way called dual extraction, to actually get what you need out of a mushroom and make sure that the mushroom extract is actually efficient. We discuss whether or not kids can use mushrooms and adaptogens and if so, how they can use them, and also whether you should mix mushroom extracts or mushrooms with hot water versus cold water and how to get them best absorbed. You know, empty stomach, full stomach with a meal without a meal, that type of thing. So pretty much everything that you need to know in terms of cracking the code on medicinal mushrooms is in this episode and it was done with ten Taro, who's the president of a company called Four Sigma Foods, which makes mushroom extracts kind of like this that I actually drank this morning instead of my usual cup of black coffee. So you can get all of the show notes as well as this podcast over@BenGreenfieldFitness.com mushrooms that's BenGreenfieldFitness.com mushrooms. I think you're going to get a lot out of this one, so enjoy it and thanks for watching it.
